Ear Training Apps

[Ed McGarrigle]

It didn’t occur to me that ear training apps existed until I came across a reference on YouTube. But then, duh, of course there are apps for everything. So, I’m wondering what experience people have with the various apps and which ones you’d recommend?
I could really benefit from some better ears. Thanks

Ed

[ChrisWallace1]

Hey Ed, I really like Functional Ear Trainer. It's free! It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles but I was just looking for something simple to help (hopefully) improve my relative pitch and that's what it's intended for.

[mbruno]

Not strictly ear training, but Nail the Pitch is a great app for vocal note recognition. Using that app in conjunction with a piano is great to help with vocals. The more I sing, the better I get with understanding intervals and relative pitch training.

Perfect Ear is not a bad app - free and has a lot of good exercises which track progress. It does singing recognition too - though I'm not sure how great that is.

There was an app that I can't recall the name of that just played a part of the song and asked what the first interval was (i.e. Somewhere of the Rainbow) - that was cool because it put the note recognition in context. Not super helpful I know - but this page is pretty close https://www.musicnotes.com/blog/musi...se-easy-songs/ and this too https://www.musical-u.com/learn/inte...ally-heard-of/ (though a little more "pop" music haha)

[Bill McCall]

I've used Erol's Singer Studio for vocal help. It has a lot of ear training and pitch recognition exercises. Not cheap for a phone app, but I know lots of singers who use it.

[Sue Rieter]

Hey Ed, I really like Functional Ear Trainer. It's free! It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles but I was just looking for something simple to help (hopefully) improve my relative pitch and that's what it's intended for.

Great topic, Ed.

I downloaded this as soon as I saw the post. It has alot of instruments you can ad, but no mando

[Ed McGarrigle]

Thank you to all.
I think I’m going to start with Functional Ear Trainer as getting a better sense of relative pitch seems to be a logical starting point.